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Set 1: After Midnight, Next Time You See Me, Till the Morning Comes, Cumberland Blues, Good Lovin', Magnolia Mountain, Ripple, Sugaree

Set 2: Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion) > Bird Song > Alligator > Bird Song Jam > Dark Star > Time > Jam > Dark Star > Morning Dew > Let it Grow > Midnight Hour > Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad > And We Bid You Goodnight

E: Samson and Delilah, Uncle John's Band

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Reviewer: supaslick - - August 7, 2011
Subject: I learn alot reading your reviews
I listen to one grateful dead or furthur show a night. The first thing I do is read the reviews. I love the bands but you guys open up a new world for me when you start explaining stuff about the songs and what year you thought the tour wasn't so great, and the best years. I think it's really cool you guys are into it on that level. Please don't stop. I never had a chance to see the Dead live. I live in Oklahoma and most concerts of furthur and Phish seem to be up in the NE of the country or California. I can relate a little bit. I did go to about 25 Phish shows. Thanks for the insight guys. It really means alot to me. Supaslick88

Reviewer: myhungryhippo - - June 6, 2010
Subject: Cumberland Blues,
is on!


see ya in phillyD

Reviewer: nigeldavahah - - May 13, 2010
Subject: I like this Show
Best show in a long time

Reviewer: judstar - - March 24, 2010
Subject: weather???
to unintrsbystandr...

i don't know if we were at the same show or not show or not but it was definitly cot shorts weather! Thank God there show was hot!!!

Reviewer: unintrstdbystndr - - March 17, 2010
Subject: Sunshine Nightdreams
There is a certain warmth to concerts featuring Grateful Dead music. From cover bands to the actual Grateful Dead to the latest iteration of post-Jerry Garcia bands, Furthur, featuring Grateful Dead founders, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, the familiarity of the music, the camaraderie of the audience’s purpose, it all fits like an old sweater.

On Saturday in Broomfield CO, there was warmth beyond that anticipated metaphoric comfort. Saturday had been gorgeous. Early spring in Colorado makes blue, cloudless skies and draws you out of doors. Halfway through the Furthur show, the inaugural events at a new FirstBank Center in suburban Denver, the weather seemed an important point to consider. After a six week run on an east coast suffering through a long winter, that early spring Colorado sun was the first natural warmth the band had probably felt in over a month. And these are sun guys, raised on the West Coast in the golden, painterly bath of northern California. The concept of sunglasses and shorts must have been welcome.

And it showed. There was an alacrity throughout, as if the vitamin D of the day had fueled new energy in both the old guard approaching 45 years of playing together, and in the newer wave infusing original, respectful lines and synergy to this music. From “After Midnight” as an opener to “Samson and Delilah” as an encore, there was irony and double entendre in almost every song. But this music, even when improvised, isn’t self-propelled or created by chance, it requires leadership. That was embodied in the younger Jerry Garcia and demonstrably lacking in the older one. It seems clear that Bob Weir has taken much of that leadership outside the actual playing, but his role in the mix doesn’t really license leadership within the music. Phil Lesh’s bass lines certainly have the potential and occasional opportunity, but when it all shakes out, its the newest member of the group, lead guitarist John Kadlecik who sits in the driver’s seat of this band ostensibly named after Ken Kesey’s bus.

Kadlecik is unlike any other guitarist who has played with this group, perhaps in his playing, but absolutely in his education. First, Kadlecik most recently played his same role in Dark Star Orchestra, a sort of Grateful Dead cover band in the way the New York Philharmonic is a Mozart cover band. That band re-played (not re-created) specific Grateful Dead shows song for song. But there is one distinct difference. Unlike the Dead, DSO always knew what the next song was. The crescendos, codas and denouements that naturally exist for a listener 30 years after a Dead show, were created on the spot not pre-destined or contrived. They may have had some vague idea of what was coming next, but the set list was as much an improvisation as the solos within each song. Kadlecik and his former band mates in DSO knew exactly where each set and concert was going and could build a deliberate path inside the music.

Kadelcik also has an encyclopedic knowledge of this music that is only matched by his current cohorts playing stage left. The other formidable players who have stood in his spot were all accomplished and certainly learned the necessary music, but they came from other traditions. Kadelcik, in his old job, needed to understand as many as five arrangements of each song, depending on what year’s show his former band had decided to replay on a given evening. That requires a fluency with the material that no lead guitarist in the Dead, The Other Ones, Phil and Friends or other iteration of Furthur can boast.

That education and his sensibility not to mimic but to honor this music, combined with a tendency to approach the concert as a collective body makes his playing as boundless as Garcia’s. He is not Garcia. Nor does he want to be. But is there another guitar player other than the late Garcia who could know the whole catalog as cold as Kadlecik? Even Garcia himself would have struggled if you asked him to pull out A “Golden Road”, a “Til the Morning Comes” and an “Alligator” in one show. But Kadlecik weaves through the show hinting here, leading there, building improvisational bridges between songs that have never been paired before. He is a consummate professional up there, and, man, he loves his job. He glances across the stage at Jeff Chimenti, the band’s equally talented keyboard player, taking musical cues and riffing off them, and in the foreground are two of the original composers of the music to which he has dedicated his career for the many years.

There were particular highlights. The Alligator into Dark Star into Pink Floyd’s Time into Dark Star into Morning Dew is worth listening to over and over again. The Morning Dew alone is as memorable to me as the Good Lovin I heard in Giant’s Stadium in September 1978 at age 15 and maybe more. But no song or string of songs was the most impressive aspect of this show. Grateful Dead shows can be relatively predictable in set list choices. If you know your history, you can hear three songs in a row and pretty much pick a show down to the season and the year, Spring ‘77, for instance. In the day at any show, Deadheads would play a parlor game of picking the next tune, and someone always won. But with this show, even after a goodly amount of time listening to most of the tour’s shows via online streaming, there was no way to predict where it would go next Someone remarked in the crowd after the pair of openers, “After Midnight” and “Next Time You See Me,” ‘they’re gonna play all covers tonight.’ And they could have. That is as much a testament to Kadlecik’s education as it is to Weir and Lesh’s willingness to shed all convention and legacy from the music and truly try and invigorate it with new life.

Reviewer: H.B. Woodrose - - March 17, 2010
Subject: Hit upside the head
Nothing much I can say about this one that hasn't been said already-- IT was officially in the air, and it struck me upside the head.

My wife and I were stationed up elevated kind of behind the stage right on the rail, so that we had a (very close up) bird's eye view of the stage. We watched, amused the entire time, as Phil paced back and forth across the back of the stage just prior to the show. Phil carried a shit-eating grin with him, which was a good sign, and we knew then that there were some tricks up the band's sleeve this night.

The first set begins ("After Midnight"), and everything is groovy. "Next Time You See Me" comes out to play, and I couldn't be happier to hear the selection. Then out of nowhere, I get hit upside the head with raw Grateful Dead emotion. The lyrics to "Next Time" primed me up to be cracked completely open as "Till the Morning Comes" kicked in, at which time I proceeded to sit down in my seat and sob like a baby through pretty much the entire first set. Maybe it was the words, maybe it was the vintage 60's feel of the set, maybe it was the energy of everyone in the room, maybe it was a gigantic release from the craziness of the world, but I just could not control the tears, and they WOULDN'T STOP!! It subsided for little bits here and there, but then, Sugaree-- "when they come to take you down, when they bring that wagon round..." and so on, and so forth. Very few times have I felt intensity within my being like I did throughout that first set, and as silly as it probably looked, I am so thankful that IT happened.

The second set was gorgeous, and sent me into some kind of nebula, much like many others have stated in their reviews. Dark Star > Time > Dark Star > Dew is unforgetable.

So I have to say thank you to the band for working so hard to make these shows special. And thank you to the people around me, for not making too much fun of me during my vulnerable experience during set 1.

Reviewer: tucsonactuary - - March 15, 2010
Subject: Magnolia Mountain
It's John singing it. Isn't it beautiful!!??

Reviewer: koonahnah - - March 15, 2010
Subject: Magnolia Mountain
Who is singing this? I always thought that this Ryan Adam's tune was a cool ode to the Dead. Well done!!

Reviewer: jt71 - - March 13, 2010
Subject: Afterglow!
Well, it's been a week since this two night run, and I'm still basking in the afterglow. So many highlights. I traveled a long way to get to these shows to meet two of my best buddies and proceeded to get blown away! Yes, the second set of night two is one for the ages. This band is crushing it right now! I hope this incarnation stays together for a long while. Sound in the venue was surprisingly strong. It seemed like the boys were stoked to be playing --super high energy and very tight playing. I thank Bobby, Phil, and the boys for making the music that they're making; it means SO much to me. I thank my soul brothers Scott and Joe for coming together for this; hopefully we'll get to many more. I thank the tapers as well, for great recordings and such a quick turn around. It's been such a treat to be able to listen to shows from this tour only a night or two after they happened. See this band as soon as you can!

Reviewer: Sinster - - March 13, 2010
Subject: Dew
Just listened to Morning Dew. Wow! Then, I watched it on Youtube. The tears were streaming down my face. This . . . is the moment I've been awaiting for almost 15 years -- since August 1995. I saw 'em in Chicago a few days earlier and I've heard some of the great stuff the boys have done this tour, but this performance of Morning Dew is the magic absolutely, totally and magnificently reborn. Thank you, JK, for what you're doing. Thanks to ChuckM for the tape. Thank you archive.org for the platform. Thanks for youtube since I couldn't be there. And, Happy Birthday, Phil!! I think you and Bobby know it's back. Jer, we miss you old man, but know you're smiling with us. This is great stuff!

Reviewer: TreesRocksRivers - - March 11, 2010
Subject: Best show of the tour?
Wow... I could seriously go on and on about this show. 4 days later and I'm still buzzing from the experience of both Saturday and Friday nights, but this show in particular blew me away. The second set is one for the ages, including a monster Morning Dew. John kills the solo during minute 5 into a frenzy and brings it back down softly the way Jerry used to.

The venue was killer, lot A was happenin' and everything in sync. This is a must download show, and I can't wait until this crew makes it back to Colorado (add some summer dates : )

Reviewer: sdean6 - - March 10, 2010
Subject: grateful
what a show! what a venue! first time out west, flew in from PA on friday with my girlfriend to visit my sister and shake my bones. Just saw them in delaware. this show tops all those previous since my heads been dead. such grate energy, grate tempo, crowd, security for the most part, weather, everything was GRATE GRATE GRATE. JK fills the spots in between phil and bobby as if he is the only one fit to...fit. Morning Dew, Time, Dark Star, Sugaree, Good Lovin.. classics. Cant wait for All-Good and the summer tour.

Question: I am used to downloading shows by the whole, how do i download this show? when i try and download song by song, my computer can not find the file (or asks me what program to run it with).. any help out there?

Reviewer: keeping time - - March 10, 2010
Subject: Uncle John's Band-Time
It would just be rude to not say thank you for this show~so merci beaucoup:)
It just so happens that in addition to it being David Gilmour's birthday on the 6th-my birthday-on the east coast was on the 7th-So most of the 2nd set was actually played "After Midnight" which was technically (the 7th) my birthday too!-or at least that's the way I'm looking at it. And to make it really perfect-the show closed with Uncle John's Band. When I saw the set list my first reaction was OMG! I just had to laugh. Before the Atlanta show I had been walking around the house for weeks singing one verse over and over- "Wo-Oh-what I want to know, where does the time go?" I hadn't been listening to any Grateful Dead at all-just randomly singing that one verse over and over. I really thought Uncle John's Band would be played here in Atlanta-but this show made up for it. Very well "timed". Very sweet. In case any of the band ever looks at this-thank you very much:) It has to be the most amazing feeling to be able to travel around spreading joy~ So won't you bring some back down south again soon? We love you here. How about a Senor, or I bet with JK, you guys could do an amazing Visions. Of course there are others I'd love to hear too, but whatever you do-we'll look forward to it.

Reviewer: Lord Happy - - March 10, 2010
Subject: First time covering Pink Floyd?
As a longtime fan of both bands, back when I was a lad we used to wonder why the band never covered any Floyd tunes. 40 years later they do it. And I haven't stopped listening to this show. Although Phil's braying sort of works, musically, its all there. I think this would have shattered and scattered my brain had I been there to experience it live.

~LH~

Reviewer: wanderin_ponderer - - March 10, 2010
Subject: Finally on the bus!
Man, this was the first time I'd ever seen any of the Dead perform (young'un!) and it was phenomenal!

Having gotten into the band through their 60s psychedelic work, I was blown away by Alligator>Dark Star>Time>Dark Star!!!

Easily the best show I've ever been to...just wish I would've been old enough to appreciate GD while JG was still around...

Reviewer: Kilroi1 - - March 10, 2010
Subject: Curious
I was there Sat night and it was an awesome show, my only question is where is the Pink Floyd song they started the second set with?

Reviewer: TheRealMe - - March 10, 2010
Subject: wow!
This Morning Dew is no joke.

Reviewer: ChuckM - - March 10, 2010
Subject: Not Charlie Miller
No, I'm not the famous Charlie Miller. ;)

Reviewer: CoolColorado - - March 10, 2010
Subject: Charlie?
Does anyone know if the Chuck Miller who taped this show is the famous Charlie Miller? If so, I'm honored to have been in his presence at this show. Thanks Charlie and everyone at the Archive for making so much amazing music available to so many.

Reviewer: phields - - March 10, 2010
Subject: chucks the man
yet again chuck you capture a live recording like nobody else was at three other shows on this tour and this one is hot hope you tape penns peak this summer

Reviewer: boulderturtle - - March 9, 2010
Subject: Absolutely Incredible
There are no words to describe how good this show was. The night before was wonderful as well, but these guys took it to a whole different level on Saturday. Amazing crowd as well, which was a very refreshing feeling. This band is completely on FIRE, and after this being my fourth show I can say five stars isn't a high enough rating.

My personal highlights were Sugaree, Morning Dew, Samson and Delilah, and especially DARK STAR.

Reviewer: shann23 - - March 9, 2010
Subject: Great Show
Very glad I was there to witness this show. Been on the bus since 1974 and didn't know if I'd ever see/hear anything like that again. This is easily the best version of the band since Jerry's passing. Stunning versions of Sugaree and Morning Dew. Thanks Charlie.

Reviewer: StrangeShadows - - March 9, 2010
Subject: Incredible... the good old days are now.
Where do I start? Old-timer here, first show Englishtown '77... and this was one of the best shows I've seen, probably THE best two shows in a row I ever saw. Killer Sugaree, mind-blowing Dark Star -> Time -> Dark Star -> Dew. John K killed the Dew and made it his own... incredible. And as someone said below, And We Bid You Goodnight was a beautiful, joyous, heart-warming experience. Made me feel home, once again.

Reviewer: jdsprechs - - March 9, 2010
Subject: Holy...
What a show, I have never had so much fun! Decided it was time to let loose and became one of the people in the back dancing all over the place and singing along to all the tunes. I can't wait until next time, these guys are amazing together!

Reviewer: Staggering Lee - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Unbelievable!!!!
Went to Fridays show and was very impressed. Wished I had went to this one also, again Unbelievable

Reviewer: dlj - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Wish I was a Headlight going to Portland.
An amazing show from start to finish.. This show is right up there with some of the best shows Ive seen and Ive been on board since Berkeley 84... That Second set was like days of old. Personally blown away by the Time>Breath segment and that Dew was one for the Ages.. JK is really something else..Wow Boys Make we want to hit the Road Again...

Reviewer: letITSnow - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Great Recording
Thanks for the beautiful recording of an amazing show...wow, what a show, what a DEW, just wow.

Reviewer: 2Hi - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Blown Away in Broomfield!
Like every other post so far I give this a solid 5 stars! As good as anything I've ever seen anyone play! Friday was mighty sweet but this was truly an epic performance. Saw my first show in 83 but didn't really get on the bus 'til 87 (Garcia @ Wiltern). I pretty much forgot Jerry wasn't playing because he was obviously with us in the building. Great venue too-let's make this place ours!

Reviewer: steve-o66 - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Get Back for 3 More at Red Rocks
Holy crap, what a show. I'm still stunned two days later. Solid first set, disgusting second set. I was so spent by the encore, I didn't realize how well they played S&D and UJB until I listened again. Furthur is bringing it. And props to the ladies...those vocals fill out the sound in a big way.

Reviewer: Furthurite - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Having A Breakest Brew Over Morning Dew
I wish I had sails because I'm gettin' blown away into the stratosphere. Morning Dew takes us all on a nuclear incendiary ride. JK is burning the frets up and down beautifully. The second set segueways from one song to the next seamlessly and reminiscent of the old days when the Grateful Dead were on fire and having a great night. This band brings back all the good memories we shared right?? Dark Star>Time>Breathe>Dark Star simply put...Amazing!! Dark Star continues to morph out and redevelop itself. The only Weir/Barlow tune here is Let It Grow, and man does it. Furthur has come full circle from the Grateful Dead daze. If you don't believe it...listen closly and you'll feel it. Magnificent masterfull performance. Portland tonight WHOA!!!!! Thank You Good Buddy for getting this one on.

Reviewer: ascheylus - - March 8, 2010
Subject: show number 7
I was at this show Saturday night and it was beyond incredible! I also saw Miami, Orlando, Fairfax, Ithaca and both Chicago nights. and the NYE shows, and the Oakland shows last September. This is truly a band beyond description. My friend and I left the Odeum blown away & I am looking forward to Phil's bday party in San Francisco. I don't have words that can capture what an incredible experience a Furthur show is...

Reviewer: soulsticks - - March 8, 2010
Subject: wow
last night was absolutely unbelievable... out of hundreds of shows, this 2nd set could really the best I've ever seen. the dark star>time>breathe>dark star>morning dew>let it grow?!?!?! words can't explain it. JK was so on fire, 2nd dark star>morning dew he tore that place apart, he's a pleasure to listen to. gdtrfb>and we bid you goodnight is a gem, family meeting is right. Bob was perfect, Phil was devastating, whole band was on. friday was really good, but saturday the spaceship absolutely exploded, I was behind the tapers and the crowd spun into orbit. my dad's an old deadhead and got to go too, confirmed today that last night was indeed legit.

Reviewer: Mike, Margate, FL - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Got any Nails
I'm loving this band more and more with each show. And the Duck joke does get better with age. The summer is coming soon and I can't wait to see this band again. Keep on keeping on guys.

Reviewer: johnnyrottin - - March 8, 2010
Subject: best show in 20 years!
I brought my freind tom to this show it was his first,too see the huge smile on his face was great!All I can say is WOW!!this band and this night was unreal!Download this show if youve ever loved grateful dead music!

Reviewer: lkapon - - March 8, 2010
Subject: holy crap!
Holy crap! what a dew! the end of this dew is just downright evil! I had to rewind it just to hear the last 1:30 twice JK's tone is just filthy. Went to Utica and thought they were great just some two weeks ago but from 2/24 on something else has just kicked in and has produced some fantastic music. Can't wait for summer tour!

Reviewer: garquia - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Top Notch!
Just fantastic playing by the boys here in CO. This night was some of there best playing so far. The second set is on par as being some of the finest improvisational music to be played in the last 10 years.
Do take this Band for Granted! They wont be playing forever! At this point in the tour they are a freshly oiled swiss watch. And they are keeping the memory of Jerry alive and strong for FURTHUR generations to cherish and preserve. JK is one talented player! Thank You Phil,Bob, Matt, Jill, Jeff, Jay, Joe and the soul sisters. Keep taking it FURTHUR!!!!!!!

Reviewer: buscameby - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Best I've seen in 25 years maybe ever
From start to finish the show I always wanted to see since I got on the bus in 77'.

I only wish Jerry had the will to play this way after 77'.

I will always consider him the master of this music but this is where he should have been playing it.

My congratulations to the whole Band for making the MAJIK!

Reviewer: TNJEDWest Coast - - March 8, 2010
Subject: CANNOT wait!!!!!!!!!!
I've been following this progression from last year till this tour. From Miami till now I've been dwnlding and absorbing!! I am having trouble writing this, I get to see this incarnation tomorrow in Stumptown!!!!
I started in '84 in Hampton Roads, I'm grayin and getting fat! Comes with age! I saw Brents last show as well as Jerrys! This has to be the best re-incarnation. This show rocks as does the 24th in NY, 27th in NJ and 3rd in IL. Each to his owns, they could play polkas all night long and I won't care. This is going to be amazing!!!!
Many thanks to the tapers for this catalog, I have truly enjoyed this Run! Hopefully there will be a few more!!!!!

Reviewer: lonesomejohnnie - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Smokin!!!
This show absolutely smokes and the venue is a hit with fans and the band. The first set started out as a OMSN but MAN they kicked it into high gear. Only low point for the show for me was Magnolia Mountain. Did not like it.Pink Floyd? Get outta here. I'm buying the master so I can play it on my radio show, but this show is worth the DL.

Reviewer: Nastero - - March 8, 2010
Subject: Yowza!
I heard a little bit of this show streamed last night, from Morning Dew -> Bid You Goodnight and it was smoking. I'm very excited to give this another listen.

Based on what I heard of the night before this show, this show, the 2nd night in Chicago, and the 2nd night at RCMH, I've VERY optimistic about the quality of show that I'm going to be seeing next weekend for Phil's 70th.

Thanks for the quick upload and the great taping, I'm going to buy a random taper a frosty, cold one in S.F. this weekend in appreciation of the efforts of the taper community.

Notes

The venue was renamed 1st Bank Center after the tickets were printed
Grand opening for the venue March 5 & 6, 2010